France’s first family apology for slave-trade past signals reckoning

An 86-year-old French descendant, Pierre Guillon de Prince, issued what is believed to be France's first formal family apology for his ancestors' role in transatlantic slavery, noting Nantes shipowners transported about 4,500 enslaved Africans and owned Caribbean plantations. He urged other families to confront their past and called for reparations beyond symbolic gestures, delivering the message at a Nantes gathering alongside a descendant of enslaved people as part of an effort to break the silence on slavery and its legacies.